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Parents are so-o-o-o out of touch, as everyone knows.
Just listen to how they say street names.
Like "St. Lawrence." Or "St. Denny." Or "Mountain St." I mean, it's embarrassing!
"It's de la Montagne," says Jessica Kirsh, 22, a recent art history graduate of Concordia University. "I don't call it Mountain," she says.
"No one ever says that, do they?" queries her boyfriend, Jordan Smith, 24, a manager of a holistic pet store who was educated in Paris.
No one, that is, except Jessica's father, Stanley, who grew up in Mile End and Côte des Neiges and stubbornly says "Mountain," "St. Lawrence" and "Devimmy" for, respectively, de la Montagne, St. Laurent and de Vimy Sts.
Once dubbed the city of Two Solitudes, Montreal has many more linguistic divides today, some of them generational.
While older anglophones live in Chatta-gee and Long-gail, eat smoked meat on St. Lawrence and pronounce "Guy St." as in "Family Guy", under-30s are apt to live near "avenue du Mont-Royal," drink on "St. Laurent" and take the métro to Guy-Concordia, with "Guy" pronounced like Guy Lafleur. They go to Irish pubs on "de la Montagne," share digs on St. Dominique (pronounced like "pique-nique"), and master the correct vowel sounds in "Longueuil" and "Jeanne Mance." (Hint: the latter does not rhyme with "green pants.")
The product of French immersion schools and, in some cases, French schools, young anglophones are more likely to pronounce the names of familiar landmarks in French than their parents are, according to Charles Boberg, an associate professor of linguistics at McGill University who specializes in language change and English-Canadian dialects.
"I think you're beginning to see more French pronunciations in Montreal English than you would have a generation ago," Boberg said.
That's largely a result of the fact that more than two-thirds of young anglophones are bilingual, he said.
"There may also be an enthusiasm among young anglophones for using the correct French names," Boberg said.
"There's a great sense of living in a French-speaking society."
Still, there are exceptions. While young anglophones call the Main "St. Laurent," they generally pronounce Ste. Catherine St. the English way. And even with the same names, there is a certain amount of variation.
"The métro station is Guy-Concordia (pronounced like Guy Fawkes) but the street is Guy (like Guy Laroche)," says Jessica's brother, Nat, 18, a second-year science and music student at Marianopolis College.
Not only do young anglos pronounce street names in French; many also swing between English and French slang.
"Even my hardcore anglophone friends, they'll say 'Ouache!' if something is gross," says Smith.
"If they're actually speaking French they'll start swearing in French. If they're in English, they swear in English," Nat Kirsh chimes in.
Recent media reports charged that English is on the rise in Montreal and that young anglophones are indifferent to francophone culture. But the everyday language used by young anglophones shows their culture is deeply imprinted by Montreal's linguistic environment, Boberg says.
Devin Alfaro, a master's student in urban planning at the Université de Montréal, finds it odd to hear English versions of street names. Even when speaking English, Alfaro pronounces streets like "St. Marc," "St. Mathieu" and "Avenue des Pins" in French.
"My rule of thumb is if a street has a French name, I pronounce it as in French," said Alfaro, 24, who moved to the city six years ago from his native Los Angeles.
That's a turnaround from a long-standing tradition in the English-speaking community to anglicize place names. In the days when St. James St. – now St. Jacques St. – was the banking capital of Canada and greystone mansions lined Dorchester St., de la Commune St. was known as Commissioners' St. and other Old Montreal arteries like St. Peter St. (now St. Pierre) had English monikers.
Outside Montreal, place names from Two Mountains (Deux Montagnes) to Murray Bay (La Malbaie) reflected the English-speaking presence. That's hardly surprising, Boberg said, since English-speakers formed a majority in Montreal and the Eastern Townships in the mid-1800s and a significant share of the population in other regions, including the Gaspé and Quebec City.
Anglophones have declined to eight per cent from a quarter of Quebec's population in the 1960s, Boberg noted.
In the Gaspé, former English-speaking communities like Indian Cove (now an uninhabited area of Forillon National Park known as l'Anse aux Sauvages) are all but forgotten, as are English versions of place names like Fox River (Rivière au Renard), Grand River (Grande Rivière) and Corner of the Beach (Coin du Banc).
In the Jewish immigrant neighbourhood of the 1940s immortalized by Mordecai Richler, Coloniale St. was pronounced "Colonial" and Roy St. was pronounced like Roy Rogers.
Kirsh, 58, now a Côte St. Luc resident, has childhood memories of hanging out at his parents' store at the corner of St. Urbain and Fairmount Sts. "I remember growing up there, going across the street of Wilensky's, they had comic books. If the cover was ripped off, you could get it for three cents," he reminiscences.
Richard Brisebois, 63, who grew up in east-end Montreal, still pronounces the first syllable in Iberville St. like "eye" and says "Noter-Dame Street." His family lived in a neighbourhood he still calls "Long Point" (Longue Pointe) and later moved to Rosemont – which to Brisebois will ever be known as "Rosemount."
As anglophones have dwindled and become increasingly concentrated in enclaves like the West Island, English versions of street names in the inner-city and east end have fallen into disuse.
French signs required by Bill 101, which establishes French as Quebec's only official language, have reinforced the use of French place names, Boberg said.
Dave Powell, a sales consultant at The Gazette and Pierrefonds resident, noted his kids call the well-known West Island artery "St. Jean" while he says "St. John's."
Young anglophones' tendency to use French monikers for city streets does not necessarily signal a sense of identification with francophone society, says Pierrette Thibault, a professor of anthropology at the Université de Montréal who specializes in the encounter of French and English in Quebec. "It's a way of demonstrating their (linguistic) competence," said Thibault. The use of French place-names in English is an example of code-switching, where bilingual and trilingual speakers switch from one language to another in mid-conversation, she said.
The use of French place names in Montreal is also part of a global trend toward replacing traditional English versions of foreign place names like Bombay, Peking and Burma with more authentic ones like Mumbai, Beijing and Myanmar, Boberg said. The trend is related to the dominance of English in an increasingly globalized world, he said. "There is pressure on English to adopt sensitive pronunciation," he said.


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Recently, Bupa, Britain's largest company for private healthcare, announced to the BBC that they believe they are charging their own customers far too much for care, and that the industry should be encouraged to think urgently about how they set their prices. A Bupa senior executive claimed that he thought costs should be cut by around 15% across the whole of Britain's private healthcare sector, and Dr. Damien Marmion, the managing director of insurance in Bupa, UK, suggested that the sector was in danger of serious 'decline' if actions were not taken soon.
The issues with cost
According to Bupa, the costs for private healthcare have been growing significantly faster than they had originally expected. As the company itself uses services that must be paid for, such as private professionals and hospital locations, they are forced to pay a certain amount of money so that they can effectively function.
A survey conducted by the company itself has suggested that over 50% of current customers feel concerned about the costs that come with paying for health insurance, and Dr. Marmion, announced that he was unhappy about the way each year brings a rise in costs for private healthcare customers, stating that 'we need to change that'.
Bupa are asking the healthcare sector to work as a team towards the goal of reducing costs by a minimum of 15%, so that patients are able to better afford the costs of healthcare. They believe that the sector so far has not provided the correct outcome for patients, and that private healthcare should be far more accessible. According to Marmion, like hotels or airlines, the more hospitals are filled, the 'cheaper it is for everyone'.
Working to provide a better opportunity for patients
In August of 2013, the competition commission, which is now part of an organization referred to as the 'competition and markets authority', announced that private hospitals were suffering from a lack of local competition, and that private insurers, including Bupa, should be required to provide better clarity on what their patients could expect as a result of their payments.
In response to this criticism, Dr. Marmion suggested that the company still had some work to do in addressing these concerns, stating that customers would benefit from a great degree of clarity 'and more transparency' in what their premiums actually provided. He acknowledged that today's customers are interested in rating systems and reference when it comes to information about what they're getting for their money, and announced that Bupa need to provide that for them.
Making money and helping people is one in the same
Because many of the private hospitals in Britain have now been overtaken by private equity companies, criticism has arisen regarding the suggestion that the desire to make a profit has overwhelmed the crucial needs of patients. Bupa itself sold a stock of twenty five hospitals in 2007, to a private equity company for over 1.4 billion pounds, but officials such as Dr. Marmion argued that this course of action had been 'the right thing to do' at the time.
It certainly sounds better than Obamacare according to many health care experts.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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14 comments:
- Ron said...
That's on par with my wife's medical degree from the Google School of Medicine.
PS. I know it's rude to pimp your own stuff in another blogger's comments, but you might enjoy this particular story. Feel free to delete the comment. It's cool.
- September 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- Viv said...
Hahaha, in that case, my roommate is in med school, which makes me almost a doctor!
- September 9, 2009 at 4:08 PM
"And I watched 'ER' for like nine years, so that's like medical school AND residency!!!"
- September 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM
- The D-Bag Daily said...
"No trust me, I read it on the internet. I've really done my research on this drug. Now if you could just write that for a 90 days supply..."
- September 9, 2009 at 5:28 PM
- Scritches.com said...
Hey, I've got you all beat! I work at a tertiary university hospital doing policy development and working with administrators. Plus I watch House religiously.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:03 PM
I used to work with Rod Stewart's niece... must make me royalty or summat.
Matthew Pinsent (a noted British athlete and former Olympian) actually can trace his lineage back to biblical times... must make him God.
- September 9, 2009 at 6:59 PM
"I applied to medical school and I know the pharmacology of my medications, it is perfectly fine to fill my Norco early and can you advance me some Oxycontin as I am seeing my Dr. tomorrow and I am sure he will be refilling my Oxycontin early also. I will just bring the prescription by tomorrow afternoon. OK?"
- September 9, 2009 at 7:10 PM
- auffer said...
Toss some Lortab in there too, please.
- September 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- "Bella" said...
butt, butt, he's neurologically impaired right?! surely he's not always a butthole...
i had to laugh at the comment about the "Google School Of Medicine!" and the link! funny.
- September 9, 2009 at 8:00 PM
..but WAIT!! I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!
Pattie, RN
- September 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM
ah another Dr.Wikipedia. You unfortunately run into these people in every profession. They do tend to result in hilarious statements from time to time.
- September 9, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- Toph McGee said...
I'm a nurse and one day I get a patient admitted with xyz and I start explaining whats going to which she replies "I know this stuff, my husband is a Dentist"...
- September 10, 2009 at 1:30 AM
- thegooddrlaura said...
When I was in medical school I ran into someone I had barely known previously. We exchanged pleasantries and I mentioned that I was attending the only medical school in town at that time. He said, "Me, too!" I hadn't seen him around and he didn't strike me as graduate level material, so I asked what school he was attending. He said, "I'm going to ITT tech to learn how to be an x-ray taker!"
Sometimes I wish we would just call it DOCTOR SCHOOL!
- September 12, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Andrea said...
I had a woman come to pick up an rx for antibiotic eye drops- she told me she got the infection after using her daughter's eye drops.
I started to counsel her on how to properly use the antibiotic and she stopped me halfway saying "I know how to use eye drops; i'm a nurse."
- September 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM


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Unsurprisingly, minds failed to be changed, and Prudential Insurance lost its appeal before the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) this week, despite strong opposition from the independent insurance expert on the insurer's ability to cause systemic risk to or within the economy if it failed.
The council presumably voted again 7-2, meeting the two-thirds of sitting FSOC voting members, with the abstention of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White, to designate Prudential a systemically important financial institution (SIFI) despite Prudential's appeal on July 23 that it was not, even as one of the world's largest life insurers, a SIFI. This would mirror the initial vote June 3. Prudential has more than $1 trillion in assets but — unlike AIG, which accepted the mantel of its formal SIFI designation in July — doesn't have half its business outside the life insurance industry.
Under the Dodd-Frank Act, within 30 days following receipt of the notice, the company is entitled to bring an action in U.S. federal court for an order requiring that the final determination be rescinded, Prudential said in an 8-K filing today.
"We are reviewing the rationale that FSOC gave us and we are reviewing our options," said a spokesman for the company.
Prudential, of course, asked for the appeal to its designation in the first place under Dodd-Frank guidelines.
The company has already been designated a global systemically important insurer (G-SII) by the Financial Stability Board of the G-20, as have AIG and MetLife in the U.S., thereby sealing their fate as SIFIs in the U.S., some would say. One cannot be a G-SII and not be SIFI, and still be subject to Fed oversight.
The designation means that Prudential will be subject not only to enhanced standards imposed by the Federal Reserve Board, but also to strict minimum capital requirements under Basel III that will apply to all SIFIs and savings and loan holding companies, regardless of their primary insurance business models.
Independent member Roy Woodall as well as Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Chairman Ed DeMarco likely voted against the designation, as they did initially, back on June 3. They likely joined FSOC nonvoting member and state regulatory insurance representative, Missouri Insurance Director John Huff, in rejecting the majority's opinion that a life insurance company is subject to runs on the bank and contagion that threaten the financial system. FSOC and Treasury did not immediately respond, but the minutes and the rationale will be justified at some future point.
Huff has said publicly that he does not believe that some members of FSOC understand insurance, pointing to the FSOC analysis used for AIG's life business, which cites runs on the life business, cashing in of policies and the spread of such policyholder panic to other life insurers as cause for marketwide economic instability.
There is legislation pending in Congress that would alleviate the Basel III strictures so they are more tailored to the business of insurance, and as late as Monday, Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Mike Johanns, R-Neb., wrote to their colleagues asking them to join them in "clarifying the law" to prevent the "bank-centric standards from being applied to insurance and causing serious challenges for them and possibly for their policyholders. The Senators are looking for broad bi-partisan support for their bill, S. 1369, that will fashion Basel III to the long-term asset to long-term liability matching business of insurance, rather than the short-term debt-funding model of banks.
Fed officials have suggested in testimony that a legislative fix is necessary to address this part of Dodd-Frank, known as the Collins Amendment.
A Treasury spokesperson said back in July that the FSOC "has developed a robust process for evaluating whether a nonbank financial company should be subject to [Fed] and to enhanced prudential standards. Although Treasury and FSOC do not disclose insurers under review, MetLife has acknowledged it is in stage three of SIFI review, and Huff has said other nonbank institutions, a number of them, are also in various stages of review.
Prudential's decision was different than AIG and GE. AIG issued a statement after it was designated, confirming that it has accepted designation as a systemically important insurer, and is "already working closely" with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York "as our regulator."


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Affirmative action has been preserved, for now, by the United States Supreme Court in the first of a series of decisions expected this week that will have a profound effect on how America protects equality among its citizens.
By the end of the week the court will hand down findings affecting gay marriage and the special protections that were put into place to protect the voting rights of minorities in some Southern states.
On Monday in Washington the Court handed down its decision in a case involving a white student, Abigail Fisher, who argued she had been unfairly rejected for a position at the University of Texas in 2008 while minority students with poorer grades had been selected.
This case is not the first time the Supreme Court has considered the constitutionality of affirmative action, which was instituted and extended during the 1960s to pressure institutions to accept and implement the provisions of the Civil Rights Act.
But on this occasion rather than emphatically supporting affirmative action the Court ducked key issues, referring the case back to lower courts which it said should "approve the use of race as a factor in admissions only after it concludes "that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity."
In a 7-1 decision two justices said they would like to see a 2003 ruling in support of affirmative action overturned. The decision included language hostile to the notion that there was a benign way to make decisions based upon race, even in the attempt to promote diversity in education.
More challenges
It was a finding that almost appeared designed to invite further challenges to affirmative action says the discrimination expert Professor Melissa Hart of the University of Colorado.
"Some of the justices clearly prefer a colour-blind application of the law," she said.
The decision prompted both sides of the debate over affirmative action – and indeed both sides of the dispute in question – to claim victory.
Edward Blum, the conservative activist who helped launch both the Fisher case, and the Voting Rights Act case also to be decided upon this week, said in a statement, "The Supreme Court has established exceptionally high hurdles for the University of Texas and other universities and colleges to overcome if they intend to continue using race preferences in their admissions policies."
In the same statement Ms Fisher said, "I am grateful to the justices for moving the nation closer to the day when a student's race isn't used at all in college admissions."
Alternative views
The American Civil Liberties Union had a different take.
"Today's near-unanimous decision leaves intact the important principle that universities have a compelling interest in a diverse student body, and that race can be one factor among many that universities consider in a carefully crafted admissions program," said Dennis Parker, director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Program.
"We believe that the University of Texas has made a strong showing that its admissions plan was necessary to achieve meaningful diversity, and that it can and should be upheld under the standard that the Supreme Court announced today."
The university's president, Bill Powers, said it would not change its selection process and would continue to defend the process in court.
"We remain committed to assembling a student body at the University of Texas at Austin that provides the educational benefits of diversity on campus while respecting the rights of all students and acting within the constitutional framework established by the court."
'Modest' move
The lone dissenter in the 7-1 decision was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who said in her decision read aloud in court, "In my view, the courts below adhered to this court's pathmarking decisions and there is no need for a second look."
Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the nation's better known interpreters of the Supreme Court's tea leaves said he believed civil rights activists would be breathing a sigh of relief at the decision.
"There was the potential that the justices would issue a really major ruling headed in a conservative direction, limiting or eliminating affirmative action," he told MSNBC. "Instead the justices did something more modest."
The prominent CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that as far as higher education was concerned affirmative action was now "hanging by a thread."
Voting issues
According to Professor Hart the calls for the rigidly colour-blind application of law signal how some justices may find in a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. This was another federal law put in place in an effort to force reluctant states to embrace desegregation and the civil rights act.
Already last week the Court struck down an Arizona law that required people to show proof of citizenship before they cast a vote, finding that it was Congress's prerogative to govern voter eligibility.
In this case the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia and Texas are arguing that their history of racial disharmony is past and they should not have get their voting regulations passed by the federal Justice Department before they are adopted.
States' rights
The final two key cases to be decided upon this week pertain to marriage equality, but could also be decided upon on states' rights grounds.
One is known in shorthand as Prop 8, and is a challenge to referendum decision in California, Proposition 8, that banned gay marriage in that state. Many court analysts believe the court may uphold Prop 8 on the simple grounds that it is not the court's prerogative to contradict the will of the people of California.
The second is a challenge to what is known as DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act that prevents federal and state government institutions from recognising gay marriage.
Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law in 1996 in an apparent effort not to lose religious support, but since then it has lost any friends it might once have had within the Democratic Party.
President Barack Obama instructed his Justice Department not to apply the law and his solicitor general not to defend it against the current challenge. Even President Clinton has voiced his regret over its introduction.
While many conservatives oppose gay marriage there is a widely held view that this conservative court may strike it down for the same reason it could uphold Prop 8 – because it is not the role of the federal government to be dictating the terms of marriage to the states.
Equality in doubt
According to Walter Dellinger, the DC lawyer who currently leads Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic, the importance of the DOMA decision cannot be exaggerated.
It is a simple as this," he writes for Slate杭州夜生活m "As long as DOMA is in effect, no gay couple anywhere in this country is truly married. If a gay couple is deemed not to be married for more than 1,000 purposes governed by federal law, it's hard to say that anything approaching marriage equality exists anywhere in the country, no matter how many states allow same-sex couples to marry."
Professor Dellinger argues that the court could strike down DOMA while upholding the pertinent section of Voting Rights Act without risking the accusation of hypocrisy over its stance on states rights.
DOMA, he writes, should be invalidated not because of federal overreach but because it "imposes a thousand legal disadvantages on married couples who are gay without any legitimate justification for this deprivation of individual rights". Meanwhile the Voting Rights Act also intrudes on states' autonomy but does so in support of the 15th amendment that proclaims, "the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged … by any State on account of race."
However they find, this will be an extraordinary week in the modern history of the Supreme Court, says Professor Hart.
Members of the bench must seek to distinguish between actual inequality, such as that experienced by many members of racial minorities, and formalised inequality, like that experienced by gay people who are not afforded the recognition and protection of the law.
And they must find a way to at once protect and advance the competing demands of the rights of states and of individuals.
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From 1901–1911, unfettered logging proceeded apace and fires followed. In 1903, 80,000 acres burned. In 1904, 200,000 acres burned. In 1907, 35,000 acres burned. Each year, smaller fires burned additional acreage. During the same time, the movement to create eastern national forests spread nationwide.
On January 10, 1903, the New Hampshire legislature approved the creation of a federal White Mountain reserve "by purchase, gift, or condemnation according to law." It also approved the expenditure of $5,000 to survey the White Mountains for such a purpose. In national publications, Ayres recognized that the movement was "an attempt to preserve what remain[ed] of the forest cover" and reiterated that the state alone could not do that. "State ownership … cannot be brought about except gradually and meantime the virgin forests are rapidly disappearing."
Ayres addressed Congress for the first time in 1902. He gained the support of various national groups: from the American Pulp and Paper Association to the American Forestry Association. He wrote articles in the Concord, Manchester, Boston, and
New York newspapers, urging readers to contact their congressmen to protect both the scenic and business elements of the White Mountains. Largely at Ayres's urging, Senator Jacob H. Gallinger and Representative Frank D. Currier, both of New Hampshire, introduced the first White Mountain forest "reservation" bill into Congress in December 1903. Over the next several years, it moved slowly through various committees and hearings.
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It's true that female workforce participation rates have risen since the 1960s from 33% to 58%. But that includes women working only a few hours a week and those unemployed but looking for work. But when it comes to full-time work there has been no significant change:
One of the most stubborn characteristics of the Australian workforce is women's rejection of full-time work. The Australian National University economist Bob Gregory sums up the data: ''Despite the rapid increase in education levels, despite large changes in social attitudes towards married women working in the labour market, despite large increases in labour market rewards and despite increased labour market involvement, the proportion of women 15 to 59 employed full time is much the same as it was 35 years ago.''
Nor have women's part-time work hours increased much:
women's weekly part-time working hours show very little overall rise - barely an hour over 30 years.
The conclusion drawn by Arndt is that husbands are being unfairly castigated for not doing a larger proportion of unpaid work when women have not increased their proportion of paid work.
The response from the female readers is interesting. Some agree that the paid and unpaid work balances out:
In my own household my husband earns 95% of the income (working very long hours) and does 5% of the unpaid housework/child care. I earn 5% of the income and happily do 95% of the unpaid housework/child care.
But then one woman had this ungrateful thought toward her own husband:
Yes Bettina, my husband plays on his iPad on the long commute. Likewise his long lunch is a "work-related activity". Do you really think this tripe helps men? You may like to consider that reading your articles makes many women feel very stabby towards them.
Another took the PC line that there are no natural preferences at work but that it's all due to socialisation:
you do not discuss why women are 'rejecting' full-time work. (No, it's not because as a female I am 'biologically hardwired' to be a snuggly nurturer all my life.) You do not go into any of the cultural or social background which could lead to such a rejection.
But most of the comments, from men and women, agree with Arndt - and that's in a newspaper with a largely lefty readership:
Reader 1: At last, someone tells the truth of what I see around me and what my own experience is. Why would I have kids and spend all week working and commuting?
Reader 2: Arndt's comments are absolutely true. Many academics and journalists are determined to trot out the party line on women and work, ignoring the clear evidence to the contrary. For example, did the media ever pick up on the obvious fact that ABC childcare went broke because contrary to the rhetoric, there is not an enormous unmet need for childcare in Australia, other than in affluent inner urban areas? Childcare centres in the suburbs and the urban fringe, where the majority of kids live, have plenty of spaces, because most of the children's mothers are not working or working in ways that still allow them to care for their children. You never hear this story because it doesn't match the approved story we are meant to be telling.
Reader 3: I generally agree with your article. Put simply, any women I know of about my age (mid 30's) in a relationship with children either do not work, or at least do not work full time. Nor do they seem to be ever intending to work full time again.
My conclusion? Women can be hypercareerist in their 20s and that can be demoralising to their male peers. The men ask themselves why they should bother trying to keep up when society doesn't want them as providers anyway. But the female hypercareerism doesn't last in the large majority of cases.
I've seen that happen many times. I've seen strongly feminist women who have sworn over and over that they weren't maternal types suddenly get jack of it all, pressure their boyfriends into marriage, have a child and quit their jobs.
So one conclusion is that men shouldn't accept that the male provider role is redundant. It's not by a long way.
But there's one more conclusion to draw. Even on the right there is often an assumption that women's greatest aim in life is to be a full-time careerist. Therefore, if you support the traditional family you might be criticised for trying to impose a masculine bias on women or trying to support a policy that women will rise up against collectively.
But the reality seems to be that even after decades of the state and the political class trying to impress a careerist world view on women, that most women aren't buying into it - that they really do want to focus on their families and that they don't see full-time careerism as the path to self-actualisation.
So I don't think traditionalists have much to lose in supporting the traditional family. We can afford to be a bit flexible when it comes to female workforce participation; all that we really need to do as a minimum is to continue to uphold the male provider role in society.


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10 warning signs of Alzheimers' Disease – January wellness focus
Whether you're experiencing possible symptoms or are concerned for someone you care about, the Alzheimer Society has developed the following list of signs to look for:
1. Memory loss affecting day-to-day abilities – forgetting things often or struggling to retain new information.
2. Difficulty performing familiar tasks – forgetting how to do something you've been doing your whole life, such as preparing a meal or getting dressed.
3. Problems with language – forgetting words or substituting words that don't fit the context.
4. Disorientation in time and space – not knowing what day of the week it is or getting lost in a familiar place.
5. Impaired judgment – not recognizing a medical problem that needs attention or wearing light clothing on a cold day.
6. Problems with abstract thinking – not understanding what numbers signify on a calculator, for example, or how they're used.
7. Misplacing things – putting things in strange places, like an iron in the freezer or a wristwatch in the sugar bowl.
8. Changes in mood and behaviour – exhibiting severe mood swings from being easy-going to quick-tempered.
9. Changes in personality – behaving out of character such as feeling paranoid or threatened.
10. Loss of initiative – losing interest in friends, family and favourite activities.
If you are concerned about any of these signs, talk to your doctor.
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At each documenta in recent years, more than 150 artists from around 50 countries, and visitors from all over the world, have explored the many different aspects of contemporary art. Exhibitions have encompassed sculpture, performance, installation, painting, photography, film and video, text and audio works, as well as objects and experiments from politics, literature, philosophy and science, offering plenty of scope for stances, visions and discussions. That's just how it was at the first documenta in 1955, when Arnold Bode, the Kassel artist and designer, sent out a signal of renewal by displaying works by artists who had been exiled and banned as 'degenerates' until 1945.
Some of the most spectacular are now integral parts of the townscape, for instance the 7000 Oaks project by Joseph Beuys, Claes Oldenburg's giant pickaxe and Jonathan Borofsky's Man Walking to the Sky, which was installed for documenta 9 in 1992. It's worth a trip to Kassel simply to see one of these great works of art.
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This summer, Art of Inquiry hosts free space exploration and astrobiology webinars for middle-school students and their families all over the world.
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Bridgehampton's Maison 24 is the go-to for the latest in high-style contemporary home décor in the Hamptons. We spoke with co-owner Allison Julius to get her insight on decorating on a budget, investment pieces and everything in between.
Can you tell us about some of the new designers that you've introduced this season?
We launched Rory Dobner in the Hamptons this season. He is a UK artist and designer whose designs blend Victorian era motifs with edgy, sexy, rock n' roll references. We carry his intricate ink drawings, tiles, pillows, mugs and candles, as well as his large-scale paintings on steel. We're thrilled to have been the first to show his work in New York and now in the Hamptons.
What items do you currently have in your East End store that you're most excited about?
Jimmie Martin is a design duo we represent, also from the UK, who has a new collection of cushions including, a flamingo motif that is very Miami Vice-esque but in a good way! I was a huge fan of the show and every time I look at the pillows I remember the opening with all those fluttering pink
How does your Hamptons store differ from the one in the city?
We carry Parke & Ronen menswear and swimwear, Dubbel Duffel bags, lots of melamine and acrylic dinnerware and barware. All the things you really want and need for summer are in our Bridgehampton store. In our city location, we are the New York partner for Bell Invito, a couture custom stationery company from Texas. We offer endless styles of wedding, event and personal stationery, and we do that only in New York because we feel during summer weekends, everyone is focused on relaxing and entertaining. Ordering invitations and stationery is done in the city when people aren't in vacation mode.
How do you go about sourcing the pieces you carry?
We travel to trade shows and vendors in Europe and the U.S., and we're always focused on looking for great design—if we're in a restaurant and the person at the next table has a fabulous bag or great bracelet we've never seen we'll, politely, ask where it's from and then go after getting it for Maison 24.
What are some easy ways people can revamp their Hamptons home when on a budget?
Painting is a great way to freshen and brighten your home. To keep it easy and inexpensive, you can choose a single wall, maybe behind your bed or behind the sofa in your den, and just paint it a bright color to add pop or a rich grey or chestnut to add warmth. Accent pillows are another great, inexpensive way to bring new life to a bed, sofa or chair.
How do you suggest going about shopping for an investment piece?
Take your time and focus on what you love. If you love Fornasetti or Lucite, then save, search and wait until you can buy a special piece of furniture that you know you will never grow tired of owning.
You stock accessories as well. Can you tell us about some standout hostess gifts?
The runaway hit of the summer is our Birkin bag inspired multi-use board. It can be a used as a cutting board, trivet or serving tray but it's so cute, people are buying it for the design first and the functionality second.
What do you think are some of the most common mistakes people make when decorating their homes?
Over-thinking whether something will 'go' or 'match' with what they already own. If you love it and it makes you happy, buy it and you'll find a spot in your home to make it work.
Where do you go for design inspiration?
We love visiting hotels, even when we're not traveling. They are places where you will always find a cross-section of people from all over the world, so the people watching is great from a fashion perspective and we find a lot of inspiration in hotel design. Our Maison 24 furniture collection is actually named after our favorite hotels.


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Does your family stand clear when you're toting the carving knife on Thanksgiving day? Perhaps frightened by that frustrated look in your eye? You're not alone. So many of us can knock out a killer bird—all golden brown and glistening—but then we stand slack-jawed in front of it when it comes time to carve. This video, from our sister site Fine Cooking, shows you how to carve a bird without having to reach for the first aid kit.
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3. Write a new method public String printAlternate(). This method returns a string that has
the data in the following fashion (assume for this example that the list stores String objects)
If the list is currently [amit is now here], it will return a string [amit here is now]
If the list is currently [amit is now currently here], it will return a string [amit here is currently now]
4. Create a generic class SortedDoublyLinkedList. This class internally uses the DoublyLinkedList class to
represent a list that has been arranged in increasing order of its data. To determine increasing
order, this class uses the compareTo method. That is, this new list can only store objects for which the
compareTo method has been defined.
a. Write a method add(T data). This method adds the data to the list so that the list is
maintained in increasing order. For example, if the existing list is [amit here is now] and you
are trying to add the string me, the list will become [amit here is me now].
b. Write a method removeFirst() that removes the first element in the list. (Hint: this works
the same way as the DoublyLinkedLists removeFirst().)
c. Write a method removeLast() that removes the last element in the list. (Hint: this works the
same way as the DoublyLinkedLists removeLast().)
The SortedDoublyLinkedList class should have only four public methods: add, removeFirst,
removeLast and toString.
Ok, I'm not sure if I need a Node class or whatever. it's probably very simple, yet I can never think well under a lot of stress.


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Keeping a supply of shredded chicken in your freezer is a great way to simplify your weeknight meals. The recipes you can make with shredded chicken are endless. I've always hated shredding chicken until I recently learned a new way using my Kitchen Aid Mixer!
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 (about
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Salt and pepper
3/4 cup water or low-sodium chicken broth
DIRECTIONS: In a large 12-inch nonstick skillet with a lid, heat the olive oil over medium heat until hot. Pat the chicken dry and season with salt and pepper on both sides. Place the chicken top-side down in the hot skillet and let the chicken cook for 5 minutes until golden brown on top.
Flip the chicken, add the water or chicken broth, cover the skillet and let the chicken simmer gently over medium heat for 7-10 minutes until the chicken is cooked through (it will register 160 degrees on a thermometer). Don't overcook or it might be dry.
While the chicken is simmering, add additional water 1/4 cup at a time if the liquid evaporates too quickly.
Remove the chicken from the skillet. Let it cool slightly before shredding. The cooked chicken will keep well-covered in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or can be frozen for up to 2 months.
Now the magic!
Place your cooked chicken (make sure it is warm, cold chicken won't shred well) in the bowl of your Mixer and using the paddle attachment, beat on low speed and gradually increase the speed until chicken is shredded.


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The United States will face a tall challenge in Turkey this summer as the draw for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup was held on Monday. The U.S. has been placed in Group A with European powers Spain and France, along with a yet to be determined African nation.
"We're welcome to any challenge," U.S. U-20s Assistant Coach and Crew Technical Director Brian Bliss said Monday. "It's obviously a very strong group with those two European teams. Whatever African team makes it, you know they're going to be good. Historically, [African nations] have been very good at the youth World Cup level."
Bliss and Homegrown midfielder Wil Trapp will head to Turkey in June, hoping to make an impact on the world stage.
"When you get to the World Cup, there are 24 teams and everybody is good," Bliss said. "It looks like a very difficult group, but we finished strong in CONCACAF and I think that will give us confidence heading into [the World Cup].
"I won't say I like our chances better than anybody, but I don't fear any of those teams for any reason."
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Jefferson Vea wasn't exactly expecting a college football scholarship offer on Thursday.
For many players, a scholarship offer might come from a school with which they hadn't had previous communication, catching them by surprise. For the Mount Dora cornerback, however, he hadn't had a conversation with coaches from any school.
That is, until he received a phone call from Memphis staff members on Thursday, and the Tigers offered him a scholarship opportunity to join the Tigers 2014 recruiting class.
"There hasn't been anyone else that I know of, at least not that my coach has told me," Vea said.
His coach is Chad Grabowski, who will be fielding plenty of phone calls from college recruiters this upcoming season as the Hurricanes will be putting a squad on the field that might represent the best in Mount Dora history when considering the number of college football prospects.
Vea, of course, did not figure he'd be the first one offered.
"I feel great and I'm really excited," said Vea, a 6-foot, 175-pound cornerback who had four interceptions last season, as well as 25 tackles and nine pass break-ups en route to being named All-District. "It really surprised me. I wasn't expecting it."
His athleticism is what Memphis cornerbacks coach Chris Vaughn and head coach Justin Fuentes said they like about him.
"They like the way I break on the ball and how I go into my backpedal really smoothly," Vea said.
He never had a chance to rub in it to his teammates that he was the first among them with a college offer, although he probably wouldn't have done so anyway.
"They kind of just found out as word got around … I guess from the coaches," he said. "I didn't really say anything."
Offers will surely be coming in for teammates and fellow juniors quarterback Bryant Mosher, linebacker Steven Gonzalez, and possibly slot-type players Jordan Porter and Jonta Scott, who are both slight in frame at 5-foot-8, but certainly not lacking in talent.
The most decorated of the current roster players will end up being sophomore athlete Von Davis. For now, however, the lone offer rests with Vea.
It will be a year of big expectations in Mount Dora.
"It's no pressure. I'm ready for it," Vea said. "I'm also ready to play big-time college ball, so I'm looking forward to it all."
Vea and most of the rest have been part of the Hurricanes starting lineup since early in their careers, which Vea said will be a huge benefit during their senior season.
"It helps a lot. I've gotten a lot of experience," he said. "It helps to know the game better and things like that."
The 'Canes went 8-3 last season and lost in the first round of the Class 4A state playoffs to eventual state runner-up Jacksonville Bolles.
This year they move up to Class 5A and will have a different district, joining Orlando teams Lake Highland Prep and Bishop Moore, as well as Lake County rivals Eustis and Tavares.
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Houston Dynamo forward Jason Johnson has been called up by the Jamaican national football team for international friendly matches against Trinidad and Tobago on November 15 and 19, it was announced today.
Johnson will join the Reggae Boyz in Jamaica today for the exhibition matches against Trinidad and Tobago. The two Carribean nations will face each other in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Nov. 15 before travelling to Port of Spain, Trinidad for the second match on Nov. 19. Johnson will return to the Dynamo in time for the second leg of the Eastern Conference Championship against Sporting Kansas City on Nov. 23 at Sporting Park.
The Happy News, Jamaica native has earned one cap with the Jamaican senior team so far, making his debut in 2010 against Argentina. Johnson was a member of the Jamaica squad for 2012 Olympic qualifying.
Johnson, 23, is in his first season with the Dynamo after being selected in the first round of the 2013 MLS SuperDraft. He made 14 appearances in the MLS regular season, scoring one goal. The rookie also made appearances in the U.S. Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League action, starting six games across the two competitions, scoring one goal.


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But it was then that something remarkable happened: they remembered how to win football matches. Having been denied victory at Manchester City only by a late goalkeeping error, they defied the odds to beat both Chelsea and Manchester United on their own pitches to pave the way for a completely unexpected great escape which was sealed against the Baggies with a game to spare thanks to goals from Jack Colback and Fabio Borini. Cattermole, whose own form over that run of games proved inspirational, said: "When everyone is writing you off, it's your job to go out and play. "We are all competitors and we don't give in. That's where we are as people and that's probably why we have made it in the game. We have shown our character. "You can say all the cliches, but, ultimately, it came down to us playing some good football and sticking together." Poyet celebrated on the pitch with his players after the final whistle, having completed the mission he was handed last October. A man who wears his heart on his sleeve, he admitted the enormity of the situation had got to him at times, and there was one overriding feeling as he and owner Ellis Short congratulated each other on an emotional evening on Wearside. Poyet said: "I think there was a little bit of relief for both, for him and for me." The 46-year-old Uruguayan will prepare his players for Sunday's final-day clash with Swansea knowing the pressure is off, and already turning his attention to preparations for the new campaign and the more immediate task of dealing with a host of out-of-contract players. By contrast, opposite number Pepe Mel will head into Sunday's showdown with Stoke looking for a reaction after a poor first-half display in the north-east which left his side with a mountain to climb. West Brom are not yet mathematically safe, although Norwich would need them to lose to Stoke and beat Arsenal with an improbable swing in goal difference to overhaul them. It appears unlikely that out-of-contract Zoltan Gera will get his swansong in a Baggies shirt against the Potters, having failed to train since suffering a hamstring injury last month. Mel said: "Zoltan Gera has not trained with the team since his injury, so it really is very difficult, almost impossible, that he will play." However, while Wearside is celebrating now, there is also an acknowledgement that the lessons of an eventful campaign must be learned. Cattermole said: "I think there will be a day in the summer when we wake up and think, 'That was some achievement'. "It hasn't sunk in yet, but, as lads, we have got to thank everyone who has had to deal with the whole season. "We have stuck together and come through it. We don't know how, but the results have been absolutely incredible. There isn't another word. "We have pulled it off and we have got to be looking at pushing the other end of the table next year. That's what we have got to aim to do. "It was a bit too close for anyone's liking. We have got to learn lessons from that and improve, because when you see nights like (Wednesday) night and the Cardiff game with the place full, it means a lot." The fightback inspired by head coach Gus Poyet has been little short of miraculous. A 1-0 home defeat by Everton on April 12 left the Black Cats at the foot of the table and seven points adrift of safety with just six games remaining. Cattermole and his team-mates woke up on Thursday morning to the realisation that they will be playing Barclays Premier League football once again next season – something which looked a remote possibility just a few weeks ago. They will do so by virtue of a remarkable series of results which has seen them take seven points from a possible nine from trips to Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United, a maximum return from Cardiff's visit to the Stadium of Light and Wednesday night's 2-0 home victory over West Brom. Press Association Lee Cattermole is not quite sure how Sunderland managed to dig themselves out of relegation trouble.


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Thanks Duke for the info. I'll have to call and reserve me a spot on one of those days. I love how they state that the ghosts aren't "real". Yeah, right. Guess they have to do that for leagal reasons, huh? Anyway I am gonna plan to go. I'll let ya know what I see.
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If I didn't force myself to explore wine further, I would have never discovered the lace-covered brute force behind Priorat, the depths that a Vintage Port can reach, or the absolutely seductive allure of an old Rioja. Obviously, I'm talking about Spain and Portugal, two regions that have been producing fine wine for centuries. It's not just about ancient bottles of Port and Rioja either (although they are wonderful), both regions are turning out traditional and modern-styled wines that would tempt a lover of Old World and modern styles alike.
What's more, they are unique from all other regions. I find that there's something of a wild core to the wines of Spain, with rich yet structured textures that lend well to foods on the table. Meanwhile, Portugal's wine industry continues to morph and grow with exciting new wines that are stunning yet have great value. It's a good time to be drinking wines from Spain and Portugal, and that makes it an even better time to think about what you want to pair with them.
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text: scratchline Posted April 23, 2012 I pulled this old book off the shelf the other day and came across an interesting section entitled "The Quality Determinants in Whiskey". There's no new information here but the elegance and succinctness of the presentation are admirable, and it's good to be so pleasantly reminded of some of the things discussed. The book was published in 1953 and written by S. S. Fields. Although the discussion of Bottled in Bond is dated, it's a good example of how little has changed:There are two popular beliefs concerning whiskey which are so firmly entrenched among the voters that they amount almost to national superstitions. And at the point of sale, they usually become hypnotic. One is the belief that age is synonymous with quality. The other is a belief that the magic words, Bottled in Bond, are a downright guarantee of it.The first of these is analogous to the proposition that any fifty-year-old man is bound to be smarter than any thirty-year-old man. The second is comparable to the proposition that all lawyers are honest men. It just ain't necessarily so.No amount of aging can make a first rate whiskey out of a second-rate distillate, and "Bottled in Bond" is not a guarantee of quality.A first rate whiskey begins with the grain. The finest No. 1 top-grade grain costs a great deal more than the cheapest cereals from which whiskey can be and often is made, and the whiskies they make are even further apart. The second natural essential to first rate whiskey is the right kind of water. It was not geographic accident but geologic destiny that located our greatest distilleries where they are. They follow a narrow limestone mantle which runs along western Pennsylvania, cutting across to southern Indiana and Illinois, and dropping down into Kentucky and Tennessee. There is another limestone region in Maryland. Water from springs which pass up through deep layers of limestone rock is the best of all water for whiskey making. Water with iron in it, for instance, is ruinous.Given the finest grain and the best water, we come now to the "Four Unknowns" in whiskey making--mashing, fermenting, distilling and barreling. Despite controls, and there are plenty of them in a good distillery, many things can go wrong in any one of these processes. Often two identical runs will produce surprisingly different results, Yet whiskey, like any other mass-market commodity, is closely figured on a cost and profit basis. The expense of scrapping or reprocessing or otherwise rectifying a renegade result may not be justified. So the off-standard renegade may be bulk sold to turn up under an unknown label. It may shout at you from a liquor store window in well modulated screams, "Old Grassroots, 6 Years Old, Bottled in Bond--Only 1 Case to a Customer!"--and it may be cookin' whiskey.Concerning that Bottled in Bond statement, the Treasury Department has this to say: "The Bottled in Bond stamp is no guarantee as to purity or quality of the spirits, and the government assumes no responsibility with respect to claims by dealers in this connection in advertising Bottled in Bond spirits."In buying whiskey, then, there are really only two gauges of quality: The reputation of the manufacturer, and your own taste. Assuming that both of these are reliable, an age statement or a Bottled in Bond statement has meaning. So does everything else on the label.But remember this: One of the most celebrated connoisseur's whiskies in America is neither Bottled in Bond nor is it more than four years old. It's made entirely from No. 1 grade corn, yet the process employed entitles it to be legally labeled simply "Whiskey." As the boys who make it say, "It's what happens to a whiskey before it's aged that counts." And it's what's in the bottle, not what's on it.So the 64,000 dollar question is: What is the connoisseur's whiskey to which he refers?-Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Philip Roth, American Pastoral: 2/18/2010
The consensus of the group seemed to be that this book is like an onion. Lots of layers. Intriguing revelations peeled away one after the other. Can make one weepy.
Stirred up thoughts about the difficulty of knowing others; the inevitability of loss and disappointment in even the most well-lived lives; the terrible decisions parents of disturbed children must make.
BC put it this way: "It's not a book you like so much as a book you absorb."
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The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade by Lori Calabrese, illustrated by Chet Taylor; Kittycat Book/Dragonfly Publishing, Inc. (August 2010); ISBN 9781936381050; 24 pages
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'Mom said, "You've caught a bug. Hop back into bed. I'll make chicken soup. We don't want this to spread."
"But I did catch a bug. I have to go in. The Bug-A-Fair's today. I know I can win."'
Lori Calabrese recently released her first children's book, The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade. Her book puts a humorous spin on the phrase, "I've caught a bug," commonly used when referring to an illness. Third-grader Matt discovers an unusual insect on his Dad's car and excitedly puts it in a bottle to take to his school's Bug-A-Fair. He hopes to win top prize showing off his special bug. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse. The morning of the Bug-A-Fair, Matt catches another type of bug, the cold bug! He insists on going to school and creates havoc in more ways than one.
It's tempting to go to work or school even if you're sick, especially when an important event is taking place. However, as Calabrese's book illustrates, this action is inconsiderate because you expose others your illness. My daughter loves school so much that she was in tears when she found out she was going to miss a day of school due to a fever and illness last month. But, after reading Calabrese's book together, she was able to better understand why it is best to stay home when she "catches a bug." The story, told in rhyming verse, tackles a serious topic in a silly, fun way that kids will enjoy.
Also worth mentioning -- the insect featured in the book, the Hines Emerald Dragonfly, is actually a real bug found in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin. This type of dragonfly is truly rare. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Hines Emerald Dragonfly is on the endangered species list. Calabrese creatively manages to educate and inform about two seemingly separate subjects by wrapping them together in a cute story. Ironically, her book is published by a small press named Dragonfly Publishing, Inc! I wish she would have included even more factual information about the interesting, endangered dragonfly in her book. Calabrese's website includes pdf teaching guides about germs, extinction, and other book related activities.
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Word emerged a couple of months back that Mozilla was partnering with Alcatel and ZTE for its Firefox Mobile OS project. Now, Reuters is reporting that work on Mozilla's smartphone operating system is further along than most people might have anticipated. ZTE is gearing up to release a Firefox powered phone either this year or early next year.
Firefox Mobile OS, which was previously known as Boot to Gecko, is a bold and ambitious project by Mozilla to provide a web-technology based smartphone operating system. ZTE currently manufactures a host of Android smartphones whose primary selling point is competent hardware at an attractive price point. It also has several Windows Phone devices under the Tania brand name. The surprising move to collaborate with Mozilla to introduce another smartphone operating system is simply an attempt to diversify. "We are trying to increase our efforts in coming up with our own operating system, while introducing products based on Android," said ZTE spokesman David Dai Shu."It's all part of our wider plans to create a better balance of products using various operating systems. We won't just rely on Android or Windows."
It's hard not to be skeptical of Mozilla's attempts given the current hyper-competitive state of smartphone ecosystems. Apple's iOS and Google's Android were the early movers, and they have managed to build a flourishing ecosystem that Microsoft, even with its deep pocket and close partnership with A-league manufacturers like Nokia, is struggling with compete against. Mozilla neither has a deep pocket, nor pre-existing relationships with device manufacturers, carriers, and developers. I will be following the development of Firefox Mobile OS closely, but I will be more than surprised if it actually succeeds.


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Jango Fett, from the Star Wars Attack of the Clones 12″ action figure line, was named Toy of the Year by Toyfare Magazine for 2004.
Also note a new advertisement from Hasbro on the inside back page of the latest Toyfare issue, which promotes the 12″ action figure of Boba Fett. The ad uses new copy and photography.
[Update 2/2014: Reviewing this article, which we published circa 2005 (or earlier), for the sake of adding which exact issue of ToyFare, we only can find ToyFare #67 as their "Toy of the Year" issue featuring a 12″ Jango Fett figure. That issue came out in 2003.]